ABOVE: Derek Daly interviews Stefan Johansson for a SPEED telecast of a Champ Car World Series race in 2003 (image by Dan R. Boyd/LAT) Continuing our series of stories relating key moments from RACER's first 25 years, this is the third chapter detailing the development and continuing evolution of RACER.com. This time the story is taken by its executive editor, Andrew Crask. If nearly 30 years in ...

Continuing our series of stories relating key moments from RACER's first 25 years, this is the second chapter detailing the development and continuing evolution of RACER.com, as recounted by its founding editor, Bill King. In July 1999, RACER founder Paul Pfanner was approached by cable TV mogul Roger Werner, longtime president of ESPN who had left to launch Speedvision, a new motorsports-themed ...

Continuing our series of stories relating key moments from RACER's first 25 years, we turn to the development and continuing evolution of RACER.com, as recounted by its founding editor, Bill King. Around 1994, Gordon Kirby and RACER launched RACEWEEK, a precursor to the blog. The emphasis was right in Kirby's wheelhouse â U.S. open wheel racing, primarily CART. At the time, RACEWEEK was one of tw...

There are a number of phrases or words I hear in life that make me smile instantly. But it's only RACER's founder, Paul Pfanner, who can say a particular one of my favorites. It was initially delivered after poking his head around the partitions in the cramped RACER offices in Tustin, Calif., or later his office door into the editorial area of the vastly more spacious HQ on Irvine. Wherever it wa...

Greg Gill, now president and CEO of the Pirelli World Challenge, served as Group Vice Publisher of RACER and SportsCar magazines during the period in which the company was under the ownership of the Haymarket Media Group. Here are his recollections of his time with RACER. -Ed. Greg Gill (left) and Paul Pfanner My first interaction with Paul Pfanner was like any other interaction with a famous art...